Investigation of an innovative PV/T-ORC system using amorphous silicon cells and evacuated flat plate solar collectors
- Submitting institution
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The University of Hull
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 3602395
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.energy.2020.117873
- Title of journal
- Energy
- Article number
- 117873
- First page
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- Volume
- 203
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0360-5442
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This EU-funded research describes a novel integration of solar cells into thermal power generation systems, providing energy at half the cost of conventional hybrid systems. The unencapsulated solar cells have an extended lifespan in the vacuum environment of the evacuated flat plate collectors, with cheap thermal storage (rather than a battery) used to manage the intermittence of solar energy. A patent was granted on this hybrid system (CN101608606B), and Swiss company TVP Solar (https://www.tvpsolar.com/products.html; Piero Abbate, CEO, abbate@tvpsolar.com) are commercialising the technology with a demonstration system currently being built in the University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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